Material Planner (Everett, WA)
Thank you for your interest in Korry Electronics!
Our company culture is focused around ownership, transparency, process improvement and trust & respect. We are looking for talented people (like you!) to lead our business to the next level while giving you the opportunity to develop your own career.
We have been at the forefront of the aviation industry since the beginning, creating the first lighted cockpit controls for the military and commercial aircraft industry. The Korry product team continues this tradition as it develops the crew station of the future, providing state-of-the-art switches, cockpit controls, high-performance displays, and night-vision filters. We are passionate about what we do. For more information, please visit www.korry.com.
Join the Korry team and find out why this is such a great place to spend your career!
What You Will Do
The Material Planner is responsible to plan and monitor the flow of material from receipt of demand through the manufacturing process. They are responsible for synchronizing material availability with final assembly build schedules for their assigned work centers. They will maintain and adjust line side inventory sizes, internal Kanban sizes, and safety stock sizes to meet customer schedules. They are responsible to create job orders, ensure jobs are completed on time, and job orders are delivered to shipping to meet the customer’s schedule in accordance with the backlog.
Primary Responsibilities
Education
Experience
Skills and abilities
Physical Requirements
Work Environment
Salary Range
Please note the typical hiring range is $27.00 - $40.00 hourly. Job offers within the range are based on significant job qualifications and pay equity.
Where We Work:
Our headquarters, a 216,000 square foot facility, is located in Everett, Washington. Everett is a great place to live and work; just 30 miles north of Seattle. This thriving community is an aerospace hub! The city, and nearby cities of Mukilteo and Snohomish, offer excellent public schools, fabulous parks, beaches, and safe streets. You can dip your toes in salt water and ski down a mountain all in the same day. Nature is truly right outside your door.
Benefits Package Details for Regular Full-time Employees:
This position requires either a US Person (as defined in applicable export regulations) or a non-US person who is eligible to obtain required export authorization
A U.S. person means a person who is a lawful permanent resident as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). It also means any corporation, business association, partnership, society, trust, or any other entity, organization, or group that is incorporated to do business in the United States. It also includes any governmental (Federal, state, or local) entity. It does not include any foreign person as defined in § 120.63.
Our company culture is focused around ownership, transparency, process improvement and trust & respect. We are looking for talented people (like you!) to lead our business to the next level while giving you the opportunity to develop your own career.
We have been at the forefront of the aviation industry since the beginning, creating the first lighted cockpit controls for the military and commercial aircraft industry. The Korry product team continues this tradition as it develops the crew station of the future, providing state-of-the-art switches, cockpit controls, high-performance displays, and night-vision filters. We are passionate about what we do. For more information, please visit www.korry.com.
Join the Korry team and find out why this is such a great place to spend your career!
What You Will Do
The Material Planner is responsible to plan and monitor the flow of material from receipt of demand through the manufacturing process. They are responsible for synchronizing material availability with final assembly build schedules for their assigned work centers. They will maintain and adjust line side inventory sizes, internal Kanban sizes, and safety stock sizes to meet customer schedules. They are responsible to create job orders, ensure jobs are completed on time, and job orders are delivered to shipping to meet the customer’s schedule in accordance with the backlog.
Primary Responsibilities
- Collects shortage information and expedite materials to jobs as required
- Defines and proactively adjusts inventory levels (line side inventory, internal Kanban, safety stock, finished goods)
- Recommends and implements ideas to improve product velocity, right-size inventory levels, and reduced overall costs
- Manages complex bills of materials
- Manages and executes complex engineering change orders
- Manages obsolescence and stock depletion
- Creates and regularly updates lines of balance
- Reschedules job orders to meet customer schedules
- Inputs job order status and delivery information for Customer Service
- Maintain item master modifiers
- Leads meetings with regards materials needs
Education
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience.
Experience
- 5 or more years of relevant experience.
Skills and abilities
- Demonstrated experience in the practical application of MRP, scheduling, order policies and modifiers, capacity planning, product structures, shop floor control, and product families
- Proficient with Excel
- Ability to trouble shoot and resolve material’s issues
- Excellent oral and good written communication skills.
- Must be a team player and have sound judgment and analytical abilities.
- Must have strong attention to detail, and ability to prioritize activities.
- Knowledgeable in master scheduling and demand management
- APICS or equivalent training preferred.
- Must be proficient with MS Suite
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervisory inputs
- Day Shift Work Schedule 6.00 AM – 2:30 PM
Physical Requirements
- Frequent use of personal computers, database and digital platforms, and other office productivity machinery, such as copy machines and computer printers.
- Frequently uses hands, fingers, and arms to reach, handle, touch or feel equipment, materials, and computer.
- The person in this position needs to frequently move inside the office.
- Frequent close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
- Occasionally use of steps or ladder.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Seldom to occasionally position self to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
Work Environment
- This job operates in a professional manufacturing environment.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet.
Salary Range
Please note the typical hiring range is $27.00 - $40.00 hourly. Job offers within the range are based on significant job qualifications and pay equity.
Where We Work:
Our headquarters, a 216,000 square foot facility, is located in Everett, Washington. Everett is a great place to live and work; just 30 miles north of Seattle. This thriving community is an aerospace hub! The city, and nearby cities of Mukilteo and Snohomish, offer excellent public schools, fabulous parks, beaches, and safe streets. You can dip your toes in salt water and ski down a mountain all in the same day. Nature is truly right outside your door.
Benefits Package Details for Regular Full-time Employees:
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with generous company contribution
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) matching
- 12 paid holidays (including a holiday shutdown week)
- Minimum of three weeks paid time off plus one week paid sick time to start
- Tuition reimbursement
- Parental leave
- Short term and long term disability
- Life insurance
- Accidental death & dismemberment insurance
- Long-term care plan options
- Prescription safety shoe & glasses benefit
- Vanpool subsidy
- Recognition awards
- Employee referral bonuses
- EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
This position requires either a US Person (as defined in applicable export regulations) or a non-US person who is eligible to obtain required export authorization
A U.S. person means a person who is a lawful permanent resident as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). It also means any corporation, business association, partnership, society, trust, or any other entity, organization, or group that is incorporated to do business in the United States. It also includes any governmental (Federal, state, or local) entity. It does not include any foreign person as defined in § 120.63.
Korry Electronics is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, medical condition, national origin, marital status, disability, pregnancy or parental status, childbirth, genetic information, or military and veteran status.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our application process as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact the Human Resources Department at 425-297-9700.
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Job Family: Manufacturing/Operations
This is a non-management position
This is a full time position
Pay Rate: $27.00 - $40.00 hourly